smoke detector

How many smoke detectors does your house actually need to be safe? If your honest answer is “however many came with the place when I bought it,” you’re not alone — and that’s exactly the assumption that nearly cost a family outside Salt Lake City everything. Nice family, two kids, three-bedroom ranch with a finished … Read more

47 ppm and climbing — that’s what my combustion analyzer read the second I cracked open the burner compartment on Karen’s furnace, and the hairline crack running across the heat exchanger explained the rest. She’d spent the previous night fighting a headache and a queasy stomach, blaming bad takeout, before finally drifting back to sleep … Read more